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Residents push county to back Gulfview Heights plan to limit house size; commissioners debate paying for initial mailings
Summary
Homeowners in Gulfview Heights asked Walton County to help fund a neighborhood plan that would cap new houses at seven bedrooms. Planning staff and commissioners discussed legal and cost limits; a motion to fund initial certified mailings was made and later withdrawn.
Homeowners in Gulfview Heights urged the Walton County Board of County Commissioners on March (public meeting) to back a neighborhood plan that would cap new houses in the subdivision at seven bedrooms per lot, saying recent 18- and 21-bedroom houses do not fit the neighborhood.
The request matters because residents say very large houses are changing traffic, parking and neighborhood character. Thomas Smith, who introduced the draft plan, told commissioners: "Our intent is to limit the number of bedrooms per house, per lot to 7 bedrooms." He said his group collected 74 email responses from a 224‑lot plat and asked county staff for help paying for the certified mailings required to validate the petition.
The planning department and county attorney warned commissioners about legal limits on what the county can…
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